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Single-day tickets are now available forDecibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver,the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, December 4-5 2026 at the Fillmore Auditorium! Southern doom supergroupDownmake their first Denver appearance in over 12 years to headline Saturday night (December 5), while crossover thrash metal legendsSuicidal Tendencieswill unleash

Photo by ANNIESNYA God Mother are sharing their new single, “Dopamine Wire” ahead of their forthcoming album Köttvärld,out September 25. Check it out here. “(This is) a song about the violent apprehension of an attentive mind. What the primitive grey matter inside your head stands endlessly against—in an age where attention and the idea of

Okay, listen up. Your band has no draw, and you’re about to default on your last seven guitar purchases. Why they’re all identical B.C. Rich Warlocks is beyond me. If you had any merch or put out any physical releases, you could hustle hard and start reinvesting in yourself, but we both know you’re incapable

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denverreturns to Denver for its fifth round, tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, December 4-5, 2026. And now the full can-crushing band and brewery lineup can finally be revealed! Southern doom supergroupDownmake their first Denver

Smokey Goretooth reporting for duty with a new “Do I Suck?,” MetalSucks’ version of “Am I The Asshole?” where we take real life horror stories and bring them to our readers to decide if the OP sucks for some bullshit they may or may not have done. This week we have a submission I expected

In the mid to late 2010s, American hardcore saw some of its brightest years, particularly on the metal-influenced side of the spectrum. That resurgence of interest led to a ton of beloved releases from bands like Soul Glo, Year of the Knife, Ecostrike and Vein, but it also put the spotlight back on genre classics

Where they from?Fed Ash are from Syracuse, NY and the HIRS Collective is from Philadelphia. Woke up this morning sick as a dog but here I am, still writing about grindcore for you beautiful people. Any misspellings should be attributed to the copious amount of DayQuil I’ve been taking. Why the hype?Both Fed Ash and

Alright, is this supposed to be some kind of a practical joke or something? Here I am, lying in my hospital bed after my fourth heart attack, and MetalSucks assigns me an article by some band called Left to Die? Hahaha, really fucking funny guys. If my strength wasn’t temporarily reduced to that of a

For enthusiasts of both crunchy and smooth, we offer up the talents of new Swedish atmospheric black metal duoGrey Shoresand their debut single, “The Withering Tree.” Formed by Martin Andersson and Vilhelm Andersson (we’re not sure if they’re related), Grey Shores juxtapose harsh black metal sounds with post-metal ambient soundscapes, clean singing and ample melody

My Dying Bride helped birth and later perfect (see Turn Loose the Swans) the doom/death genre in the early ’90s. By the late ’90s, however, the lineup that left a seismic impact on extreme metal began to crumble. The band has admirably carried on since further cementing their legend, even in spite of perhaps their

Greetings,Decibel readers! This is truly an eclectic day for new releases, as we’ve got standbys like death-doom and death-thrash here alongside some New York Hardcore and classic 1970s revivalism. Perhaps you like one of these styles. Maybe you like all of them! And, well, if you like none of them, why’d you click this article?

Rochester iconoclastsSulacoare quite possibly one of the best kept secrets in underground metal. Fronted by fret wizard Erik Burke (ex-Brutal Truth,Nuclear Assault,Lethargyand many more), this quintet has been busy obliterating genre lines for over 20 years. We’resoenamored by their technical wizardry that the Decibel Flexi Series is proud to present “Curtains,” an exclusive track only

Atlanta blackened death/thrash unit Malefic share the new video for “Blood of the Throne,” the opening track from their latest album Impermanence, released this past February via Terminus Hate City. Check it out below. The video marks a bold visual departure for the band, one that drummer/vocalist Aaron Baumoel calls “another form of artistic expression,

Photo by Tom Birch Chicago doomgaze quartet REZN are on the eve of releasing their sixth full-length,Cycles in the Infinite Dream, a sprawling, psychedelic opus filled with melody, melancholy and a dreamy, doom-soaked atmosphere. We gave the veteran band—Rob McWilliams (guitar/vocals), Spencer Ouellette (synths/saxophone/lap steel guitar), Phil Cangelosi (bass), Patrick Dunn (drums—who’ve been together for

Happy hump day, suckers! Smokey Goretooth is back again with a new “Do I Suck?,” MetalSucks’ version of “Am I The Asshole?” where we take real life horror stories and bring them to our readers to decide if the OP sucks for some bullshit they may or may not have done. This week’s submission comes

Garry Brents is one of the busiest people in heavy music, writing, recording and issuing a few dozen releases since the Covid pandemic began (and plenty more before that). Brents’ latest ripper comes from Sallow Moth, a progressive death metal duo from Dallas. Their new album, Hydrophilous Brood, is out later this week and it’s

Alright, I’ve completely given up hope that MetalSucks is going to assign me a good goddamn album to review. They’re just going to keep pitching yesterday’s partially digested release in my direction, and these reviews are going to get angrier and angrier as a result. You know what? Good. Fucking good. I’d be lying if

Photo by Vanessa Valadez Chicago progressive instrumental metal trio Coyote Manshowcase a broad musical palette on their upcoming second full-length,Prosthetic Memories, but on new single, “Zealotry,” they abandon subtlety for sheer force. This is a four-minute-plus roiling bulldozer of a track that uses melody sparingly and mostly just rides a couple of relentless circular riffs.

“SYSTEM OF A DOWN’s DARON MALAKIAN Leads Entire Stadium in OASIS Diss.” Maybe it’s the rise of veganism, or the fact that nowadays ordering red meat from nearly anywhere can give you explosive diarrhoea, but it’s been too long since the music industry has had a good BEEF! Enter System of a Down, comparing Oasis

There’s almost no point in even writing an introduction for this one –regardless of what is written, prog fans will already have a four-paragraph rebuttal ready and waiting before I’ve even sent this to my editor. Because somehow, prog fans always know. They just do. Hence, why this introduction feels pointless. Prog-heads already either know